Tag: Jamaica 50

  • TRB Podcast: Peta-Gaye Nash kicks off Jamaica 50 at TPL

    TRB Podcast: Peta-Gaye Nash kicks off Jamaica 50 at TPL

    Listen here: [audio:May2012/nash.mp3] Peta-Gaye Nash started the Jamaica 50 series at the Toronto Public Library  with readings from her short story collection, I Too Hear the Drums. She is a short-story and children’s book author born and raised in Jamaica; she now lives in Mississauga. In this podcast, recorded at the Maria A. Shchuka library branch…

  • Toronto Public Library’s Jamaica 50 Series

    Toronto Public Library’s Jamaica 50 Series

    The Toronto of Review of Books brings you podcasts, interviews and book reviews following the Jamaica 50 series. More than 230,000 people of Jamaican heritage live in Canada; almost 160,000 in the GTA. In celebration of that community’s long history, and of Jamaica’s independence, the Toronto Public Library and the group Jamaica 50 are holding…